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rjb112
Well thanks for all your great instruction and telling me about it.
@Ted: Excellent speed you're getting.......I'm very happy with my ISP too. I've got Verizon FIOS, and I just upgraded to their 50 Mbps download, 25 Mbps upload speed, and my speedtest.net test is showing I'm getting 58 Mbps download, 38 Mbps uplo…
A related issue:
http://theweek.com/article/index/257404/why-is-american-internet-so-slow#axzz34FujYL6a
"According to a recent study by Ookla Speedtest, the U.S. ranks a shocking 31st in the world in terms of average download speeds. The leaders i…
Baseball fan here. "Battering average" makes me giggle. So, Grantham is not a dumb shit after all, eh?
Grantham is certainly a very smart guy. And well worth reading.
But based on my read of his most recent articles [all available for free on the…
@jerry: Rob Arnott of Research Associates [Research Associates was referenced in the linked article] supports what you are saying to some extent. He has done a lot of research in this area, and he concludes that almost any way to construct an index…
The author chose Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF for ex-US stocks.
A better index fund is the Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund, which is also found in exchange traded fund format with the symbol VXUS.
It's very similar to the fund he …
Well, if you went into BOND several months ago you are still be underwater
1. Kudos for apples/orangutans -:)
2. I'm not in the fund, but I looked at Morningstar's total return figures.....don't see how an investor would be underwater if they wen…
Interesting:
"The smaller Pimco fund has trounced the firm’s biggest one in this environment. Pimco’s Total Return ETF has returned 14.7 percent since its Feb. 29, 2012, inception, compared with an 8.7 percent gain on the $229 billion bond mutual fu…
Anxious to see also how Wintergreen responses to the recent queries from heezsafe and rjb112.
Charles, here's an update:
Just 20 minutes ago I received a reply from my contact person:
"Mr. Winters is currently traveling, but I will present this l…
"....,.and no more than 15% of its net assets will be invested in stocks of companies in emerging markets."
I think that's a mistake.
What if they come to an environment in which they find the best bargains or most attractive opportunities are in e…
Crash, I'm agreement with you. I'm not interested in small caps at a forward P/E of 18.85. Just like you said, pricey.
I feel much more comfortable with the Dow 30 at a forward P/E of 14.91, or the S&P 500 at 16.38
http://online.wsj.com/mdc/p…
She says in her article today, 6/2/2014, http://jugglingdynamite.com/
Eyes wide open: which market participant are you?
Posted on June 2, 2014 by Danielle Park
that the Russell 2000 has a forward P/E ratio of 83.
That appears to be incorrect. Th…
Here's some related links:
Some comments on Harry Browne by William Bernstein:
http://www.efficientfrontier.com/ef/0adhoc/harry.htm
There's even a Permanent Portfolio Discussion Forum/Message Board:
http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/index.php…
also from the Alice Q&A she mentions that in 2004 Buffett knew about a housing bubble. You can get a link to that Q&A from latest article by Vitaly Katsnelson if you are interested.
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Do you mind providing a link to the Vitaly Katsnelson …
You're welcome hank.
Here's some more information on the Analyst Medal Ratings, their opinions on funds.
It's taken from a pdf document titled:
Morningstar Analyst Rating for Funds
Methodology Document
I'm going to hack up the document, which i…
What about expanding the theme to include the stocks of Charles Schwab, SCHW, discount broker TD Ameritrade, AMTD, and other places that mutual fund aficionados frequently go to purchase funds.....
Morningstar's opinion of a mutual fund is not expressed in the number of stars it has. It is expressed in the rating of the fund, such as Gold, Silver, Bronze, Neutral or Negative.
Per Morningstar:
"Pure math. A fund's star rating is based solely …
That chart is one for the ages.
I think I'm recalling right that Consuelo Mack never asked Andrew L. about his record on the alt strategy he was touting during the May 2 WealthTrack program.
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I saw the Consuelo Mack interview, and no, I don't …
Yeah, he said during the interview something to the effect of 'if you think the stock market is going to keep going up, you shouldn't be invested in the fund'
usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2008-06-11-shrinking-sizes_N.htm
"Shoppers beware: Products shrink but prices stay the same"
"Downsizing is nothing but a sneaky price increase," says Edgar Dworsky, former Massachusetts assistant atto…
Excellent cman.
You know, one thing I dislike about TIPS mutual funds, and one reason I have never invested in one, is that you buy TIPS for inflation protection. Yet, inflation often (not always, but often) goes hand in hand with increased interes…
Funny guy. He said in the interview that by the end of 1999, the only shareholders he had left were those who forgot they had money invested with him! The fund lost 70% of its shareholders by the end of 1999. He said that in 1999, he thinks the f…
@Ted: "TIPS are for investors who fear the future without cause."
Maybe you are only referring to their purchase right now, but not to TIPS in general?
TIPS can be a great investment. I purchased a 10-year TIPS somewhere around the 1997 time frame.…
"Are you really saying the roughly 1400 stocks out of the total of 5000 US stocks not in VTSMX are all microcaps? Please clarify as to where you get this inference from."
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I'm not sure on that.....but my guess is that the vast majority are. I…
OK. On that snapshot page, the "Quote" tab, I see the top 5 holdings and there is no portfolio date. But if I go below that, to the Top Sectors, it does have the Portfolio Date there. Do you see that too?
Morningstar had moved the 52-week high and low numbers to the "Chart" page for each fund. Where did it disappear to? I notice also that an actual date for the most recent portfolio owned by the various funds have been removed.
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Crash:
I j…
